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    OIL LEAK...DOH!!

    So my 110 is marking its territory on the drive with oil from somewhere. Not a great deal but enough to keep awake ay night Ive been undwrneath but it is pretty hard to determine exactly where it is coming from. The oil is jet black which leads me to think it maybe engine oil rather than from...
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    UnsureUnsure

    Chassis is undersealed. One small scab on rear door and thats it. 135000 miles. All else is fine
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    UnsureUnsure

    Just a quick query as to how much you can realistically sell for. I am in a tricky fix and may have to give up my belived g4 90 to change for a 110 due to kids. Trouble is ive seen so much variation in prices people sell them. I saw one go for 25k!!!! With a similar amount of mileage and...
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    Children and rear seats!!! Help

    Ok so im assuming this may of been covered many times before. What is the law regarding children i the back of a 90? I have a g4 td5 and the rear seat are the old sideways facing ones, i have checked the v5 and its classed as a 6 seater. I dont really want to sell for a 110 or even another...
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    Lucky escape

    So I'm about to go to bed when there's a knock at the door and a gentleman(god bless him) standing there telling me he has just scared off 2 lads wheeling my defender off the drive and down the street!! They weren't far off succeeding either! Turns out they short circuited it and popped the door...
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    alarm/horn issues!! desperate help needed

    I have internal motion sensors, the alarm has gone of every so often but this is the first time time experienced anything like this. Like I said I took out the fuse for the sounder from under the seat. Wil this stop the horn is alarm is tripped?
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    alarm/horn issues!! desperate help needed

    I've had a problem with my defender td5 recently, I was called out of work by security saying my alarm was going off. However there was only the horn sounding, unlocked and started but the horn stayed on!! But after starting went to a very low drone and ceased working all together, now the...
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    Still drifting/pulling to the left...what to try next??

    hey everyone, i have already posted about this but here we go again, my td5 90 pulls to the left when i let go of the wheel. and also on heavy braking, just had radius bushes all changed as i thought there may be play in the axle, this was after checking regular stuff such as track rods...
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    pULLING TO LEFT WHEN DRIVING...ESPECIALLY ON HEAVY BRAKING..IM ALMOST BANKRUPT!!!

    the wheels were taken off on my last visit to a specialist.. all was reported to be in full working order. althoug hone was reported to taken a split second longer to release they said this would not cause such a sudden pull , only if it was siezed, theres no oil leaks either . im dumbfounded...
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    pULLING TO LEFT WHEN DRIVING...ESPECIALLY ON HEAVY BRAKING..IM ALMOST BANKRUPT!!!

    hey all ill just cut to the chase.. ive been having the problem of my defender td5 pulling to the left for a while now. on normal braking it is ok but on heavy braking its hedgebound!!! and im almost out of ideas....and money. my passanger side front tyre is the only one that is wearing down...
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    Pulling my hair out!!! what else can i possibly try!!

    My 53 defender td5 was misfiring after start up and sometimes not starting at all, everything is as normal.... fuel pump kicks in and pressured up, when i go to start it starts but dies immeadiatley, or misfires then dies. then when i try n restart... nothing from pump. after a few turns of the...
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    TD5 intermitant missing?

    hi tom, thanks for the tips, the specialists ran all injecters and all wer firing as they should no timing issues etc. tried changing harness as ther was oil in loom but as i hav found out, that wasnt the problem, air and fuel filters are all clear, and just had a new fuel pressure regulator...
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    TD5 intermitant missing?

    :confused::doh: i have a 53 td5 and rcently it has started missing odd times, fine for days on end then suddenly...a miss/cough, with mil lamp flashing when the miss occurs but then everything goes back to normal. i have had it to a 2 garages, 1 of which is a LR specialist, full diagnostics...
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    TD5 sometimes nt starting and then loss of power with MIL lamp on?

    Hi Shifty, I have had it to the local garage and checked all earth points and chasis etc and all is fine, Diagnostics still not showing any faults at all, do you have any other suggestions as to what it might be as i am completly stumped now and so are the 3 garages i ahve taken it to...
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    TD5 sometimes nt starting and then loss of power with MIL lamp on?

    This is really ****ing me off now as i am nearly on the bones of my arse trying to sort this bastard of a problem. Pardon my french :) Ok...so.... sometimes the pump refuses to kick in until key is turned a few times, othertimes the cycle occurs as normally but it is reluctant to turn over...
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    Still not starting td5

    i have but cant seem to find anything wrong, it has misfired a couple of times too with MIL lamp coming on for a few seconds? back to garage again to see if its the injector harness.
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    Still not starting td5

    So i have a 2003 td5 defender that sometimes doesnt start?, the fuel pump just sometimes doesnt seem to kick in and hence the car wont start. i have put in a new fuel pressure regulator as the old one was leaking quite bad but the problem still persists, im not getting a new pump just yet as...
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    Fitting Spotlights? help?

    Does anyone know the simplest way to fit some spots to my defender td5, can they be wired to the headlights? :confused:
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    Defender td5 grinding/vibrating noise

    I have bought some molyslip gearbox additive and was thinking of changing gearbox oil? clutch oil level is fine, but how do you get to gearbox to do oil change, like i said its my first landy but i only bought it in febuary, and it had a full service done before i picked it up. does th oils get...
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    Defender td5 grinding/vibrating noise

    Hi all, im new to this forum so bare with me. I have a Defender 90 td5 (2003) and last week it has started making a grinding/vibrating noise. at first it was just at start up when cold but now it is happening when driving, when accelerating upto 30-40mph,the vibration seems to come through the...